Riot Games will hold a meeting tomorrow at 11 a.m. Pacific time with an open invite to coaches, analysts and professional League of Legends teams competing in the League Championship Series. The meeting is being called to discuss recent changes to the game that were announced on Wednesday, sources close to the teams and Riot Games tell ESPN. All the teams in the North American LCS have been invited.
The meeting's purpose is to obtain feedback concerning the game-play changes, which will launch in the coming weeks before the LCS playoffs and the World Championship. It comes after players, coaches and analysts expressed their unhappiness with the timing of the changes in a series of emails to Riot, sources say. In their invite to teams, Riot says it will not discuss the timing of the changes, simply the changes themselves.
These changes will shift the early game as they make a common strategy, the lane swap, less impactful. Lane swaps essentially swap a team's top and bottom lane, putting the team's top laner in a one-versus-two situation, and the team's bottom lane in a two-versus-one. This gives several competitive advantages, including the ability to make a weaker bottom lane survive through the early part of the game.
On social media, some professional players, coaches, and analysts have been outspoken about their distaste with the changes, while others have praised the changes.
Riot Games declined to comment.
